balance

balance is a 7-letter English word with 37 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An apparatus for weighing. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 37 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An apparatus for weighing.
2. noun. Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
3. noun. Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
4. noun. The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
5. noun. An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
6. noun. A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
7. noun. The constellation Libra.
8. noun. The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
9. noun. A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.
10. noun. To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
11. noun. To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
12. noun. To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
13. noun. To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
14. noun. To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
15. noun. To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
16. noun. To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
17. noun. To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
18. noun. To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
19. intransitive verb. To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
20. intransitive verb. To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
21. intransitive verb. To move toward a person or couple, and then back.
22. noun. a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
23. noun. a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
24. noun. a weight that balances another weight

    Synonyms: counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer

25. noun. (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane

    Synonyms: correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry

26. noun. harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)- John Ruskin

    "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"

    Synonyms: proportion, proportionality

27. noun. the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22

    Synonyms: libra

28. noun. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra

    Synonyms: libra

29. noun. equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
30. noun. the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
31. noun. something left after other parts have been taken away

    "there was no remainder"

    "he threw away the rest"

    Synonyms: remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest

32. noun. equality of distribution

    Synonyms: counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise

33. noun. a state of equilibrium
34. verb. hold or carry in equilibrium

    Synonyms: poise

35. verb. compute credits and debits of an account
36. verb. bring into balance or equilibrium

    "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"

    "balance the two weights"

    Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize

37. verb. be in equilibrium

    "He was balancing on one foot"

Synonyms

counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer, correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry, proportion, proportionality, libra, remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest, equilibrium, equipoise, poise, equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize

Common word forms

balanced, balancer, balances, balancing, balanceable, balancement

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